Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: spina-bifida-association.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
MED
24 filings
$770K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
13 filings
$390K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
7 filings
$250K on those filings
Veterans
VET
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 623111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 643111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1459110th CongressTo improve Medicare beneficiary access by extending the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1809110th CongressMedicare Independent Living Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3479111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5729110th CongressSpina Bifida Health Care Program Expansion Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2984110th CongressVeterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1938111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 1664111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3907111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 1480110th CongressSupporting the goals and ideals of National Spina Bifida Awareness Month.2 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Hilary Hansen
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Covered position: Staff Assistant, Representative Martin Frost
13 filingsthrough 2012
Julie HyamsVenable LLP11 filingsthrough 2024
Julie Scott AllenPowers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.C.8 filingsthrough 2026
Ian RockwellFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) June 2011-Aug 2011 Intern September 2013 - December 2013 Legislative Intern July 2014 - August 2015 Staff Assistant August 2015 - August 2018 Legislative Correspondent3 filingsthrough 2021
